Highlights of GIF Festival

A pear turns into a skull, which then eats a pear that turns into a skull, which then eats a pear… this is just one of the many artworks to get lost in at the inaugural GIF Festival. Presented by Noise Singapore and the boundary-pushing urban art gallery Kult, the week-long extravaganza showcases over 50 GIFs projected onto large canvasses by aspiring multimedia wizards. We the pick the brains of seven artists on their hypnotising works.

“We live in a fast-paced society and this piece represents anyone who has fallen into repression or depression or who is burned out or having a hard time in life. Go on a crazy, happy, out-of-this world psychedelic trip with this GIF. It reminds everyone that although life can be brutal, it also brings about surprising and unexpected happiness, too.”

“The piece is an infinite loop of my interpretation of the journey to the sun. I’ve always wanted to create works using the programme Cinema 4D and this piece turned out to be my first successful one. As an avid lover of 80s flicks such as Back to the Future, this GIF is largely influenced by retro visuals.”

“The idea for this piece came about from a ‘fruit loop’ – in which a pear transforms into a skull and eats the pear which transforms into a skull and it goes on. It’s basically a looping GIF... about fruit.”

“To me, the idea of a GIF has always been about conveying motion. Capturing the essence of motion with basic shapes that translate, transform, and spiral in a twotone space, the piece seduces you to gaze and appreciate the purity of movement.”